Chol Soo Lee Symposium

The Chol Soo Lee Symposium, presented by the UC Davis Asian American Studies Program on February 22, is co-sponsored by the School of Law. Chol Soo Lee, an ex-death row inmate wrongly convicted of murder, will be the keynote speaker.

Chol Soo Lee, a Korean immigrant was involved in the fatal stabbing of an inmate while serving a life sentence for murder and was sentenced to death. After the Sacramento Union published a series of articles questioning the case against him, Chol Soo Lee became the center of a pan-Asian movement that successfully mobilized to attain "procedural justice" for him and, ultimately, his freedom in the early 1980s.

Featured panelists will be K.W. Lee, the investigative reporter who first exposed the case and later donated his papers to the UC Davis University Library; and Dr. Luke Kim, Grace Kim, and Grant Din of the Free Chol Soo Lee Defense Committee.

The event will be held at the UC Davis University Club from 6-9 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

Flyer - Chol Soo Lee PDF